Philip J. Campisi, Jr., is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Group. Phil practices in all phases of business litigation in the Federal and New York State court systems, including trial level and appellate practice, and conducts arbitrations before the National Association of Securities Dealers (the "NASD"). Phil provides counsel to and represents both institutional clients and individuals in several areas of commercial litigation, including employment and labor law matters, unfair competition, restrictive covenant and trade secret law, securities arbitrations, real estate disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, intellectual property litigation, Section 1983 discrimination claims, and other business torts.

Phil has extensive experience in securing expedited and equitable relief for his clients, particularly in connection with obtaining emergency temporary restraining orders and injunctions for the purpose of protecting intellectual property rights and proprietary information of businesses from departing key employees and competitors, and otherwise enforcing post-employment rights. In this regard, Phil represents a large international broker-dealer and works closely with its legal department in planning and conducting trade secret, restrictive covenant and other securities and employment related litigations and arbitrations on behalf of this client throughout the nation.

In addition, Phil actively counsels private and non-for-profit entities along with individual clients on a wide variety of employment matters, both in connection with litigation and with fashioning and implementing strategies and policies aimed at protecting business proprietary information, and otherwise preventing and avoiding potential employment related litigations of all types. Phil is also an advisory board member of a healthcare management corporation dedicated to providing affordable primary and pre-natal care services, and of a start-up, not-for-profit theater group.

Phil has also represented a variety of clients in litigations involving contractual disputes between parties to commercial real estate transactions, including the right of specific performance under large-scale real estate purchase agreements. Phil has also assisted in the representation of victims and families of the U.S. citizens killed abroad under existing Federal anti-terrorism laws. In connection with this representation, Phil participated in a Federal Court trial in Washington, D.C. which resulted in a multi-million dollar judgment against a foreign government proven to have provided material support and resources to a terrorist group linked to the killings of U.S. citizens abroad.

Clients have recognized Phil for his result-oriented approach and his ability to formulate creative and practical solutions to business problems without losing sight of the goals of the client.

Phil received a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from Brown University in 1992. While attending Brown, Phil was a pitcher on the varsity baseball team. He received his Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law in 1997, where he was on the Dean’s List and served as a senior staff member of the Hofstra University Law Review. Since graduating law school, Phil has co-authored a number of articles and commentaries in the New York Law Journal, analyzing New York court decisions that touch upon novel issues and recent developments in business litigation. Phil is admitted to practice before the Courts of the State of New York, as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is an active member of the New York State and Nassau County Bar Associations.

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